Sugar Baby

Sugar Baby

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Women Who Dare

"Karen Young is a spellbinding storyteller..."

--Romantic Times

She could lose her son, after all.

Little Danny Woodson witnessed a murder, and now the killer is after him. Claire Woodson will do anything to protect her son. Even if it means living with the enemy. And Mack McMollere, Danny's uncle, is the enemy. The wealthy Louisiana sugar baron is fighting Claire for custody of the boy.

Mack--and the powerful McMollere family--swear they can keep Danny safe. But now there's new danger. Danny is fitting in too well with his late father's family. And when she's with Mack, Claire's finding it all too easy to forget that the McMolleres want her son....

Exciting and emotional--a compelling new novel from RITA Award winner Karen young, author of The O'Connors trilogy and Having His Baby.

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Karen Young's Bio

Karen Young does not claim to be one of those authors who knew from childhood that she wanted to be a writer. In fact, she became an author from necessity. Following her executive husband around on his numerous relocations made it difficult to build her own career. After moving over 15 times, she decided she needed a profession that could literally be moved as easily as her furniture. Writing came to mind. After all, unlike her three daughters, a typewriter could almost be packed in a suitcase.

A story had been percolating in her head for a while, so without experience, an outline or expectations, she wrote a book in about four months. Off it went to Silhouette—which was just beginning to build an author base—and about six weeks later the telephone rang and, to her amazement, she received an offer for the manuscript.

Wow, she thought, this is really easy. Wrong. It's really difficult and, without having ever taken a writing course, she made lots of mistakes in the beginning. But time and blood, sweat and tears paid off. She took home a RITA Award in 1994 and has been a RITA nominee three times. Presently, she writes a book a year.

She still wrestles with what to write. She's written traditional romance, longer series Harlequin Superromance novels, women's fiction and gritty suspense novels. Sometimes, to keep story ideas fresh and to challenge yourself as a writer, she claims, it works to write in different genres. At least, that's been the case for Karen. But the disadvantage to that is that an author's readership may not appreciate opening a book and expecting straight romance and finding murder and mayhem instead. "I simply decide, one book at a time, what story to write," she says.

Karen Young lives with an English springer spaniel and a cat with no blue blood. She welcomes letters and can be reached at P. O. Box 450947, Houston, TX 77425. Or email her at karysto@aol.com.